Our annual benefit and ENVI Award presentation is EDC’s largest and most successful fundraiser of the year held outside at Rancho La Patera & Stow House in Goleta. Guests join us for live and silent auctions, hors d oeuvres, wine, beer and in honoring EDC's environmental hero, Scott Bull. MORE>>

In order to prevent sprawl and the unnecessary conversion of agricultural lands, the Goodland Coalition hired EDC to draft the Goleta Heritage Farmlands Initiative. If the Initiative qualifies for the ballot and passes in November, it will give voters in Goleta the right to decide whether the City should redesignate agricultural lands. MORE>>

Two weeks after EDC appealed the County's approval of E & B Natural Resources Management Company's proposed oil and gas seismic project, the company notified Santa Barbara County that it was withdrawing its application. The project would have involved seismic surveying on approximately 23 square miles (14,720 acres) of active agricultural land in the Cuyama Valley. MORE>>